[wellylug] Upgrade MediaWiki from 1.5.5 to 1.5.8

[jon at jon.geek.nz]

On 31/3/2006, "Michael Dittmer" <michaeld at mercury-projects.co.nz> wrote:
>Hi All
>
>I need to upgrade our MediaWiki here at work from 1.5.5 to 1.5.8 to see
>if it fixes a bug we currently have. Does anyone know how to upgrade
>from 1.5.5 to 1.5.8?
>
>I have read the HowTo, but it only talks about upgrading the 1.4.x
>series or earlier.

I seem to recall that minor version changes (within a 1.x range) do not
require database changes, and you can just extract the files over the
top of your installation. Is there an INSTALL or README file in the
tarball or zip file you have?

J